Planter, soldier, and politician, General Robert Howe probably was the most dashing and most controversial Revolutionary War leader from North Carolina. Howe was a supporter of anti-British resistance from the very beginning.

On October 25, 1774, Penelope Barker organized fifty women to participate in the Edenton Tea Party, in order to tell the government in England what North Carolina women were prepared to do to resist repressive laws. Griffin discusses the event, which was \"the earliest instance of political activity on the part of women in the American colonies.\"

Flora MacDonald was a Scottish heroine who saved the life of \"Bonnie Prince Charlie,\" claimant to the British throne. Later she and her husband came to North Carolina hoping for a better life. They remained loyal to England during the Revolution; this angered many of their neighbors and forced their departure back to Scotland, where they lived out their lives.

Patterson takes the reader back to a colonial kitchen among the tryvets, spyettes, chauldrons, and gibcrokes, where cooks prepared \"possum laced with potatoes, Hopping John, and a frothy drink called Syllabub.\" Readers will find the kitchen and utensils quite different from those of today.